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POPSBush Backs World Court The International Court of Justice, widely known as the World Court, was created at the founding of the United Nations as the world body's high court for resolving international disputes. Located in The Hague, the World Court's 2004 ruling in the Medellin case held that the United States had ignored a long-standing Vienna Convention on Consular Relations to which it was a party. In 1998, the U.S. Supreme Court had ruled in an appeal on behalf of Medellin that any rights under the Vienna Convention did not apply in his case because of limits Congress had placed on prisoner access to federal courts. The Supreme Court ruling notwithstanding, President Bush announced in 2005 that he wanted Texas to comply with the World Court's ruling by convening new hearings. He claimed, amazingly, that his opinion was consistent with his "constitutionally based foreign affairs power." There seems to be no end to Mr. Bush's desire to build the power of the executive branch.
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